United Kingdom, May 11 -- Bindi Irwin missed the annual Steve Irwin Gala after undergoing emergency surgery.

The 26-year-old conservationist had been due to attend the annual fundraiser - which is held in honour of her late dad, crocodile hunter Steve Irwin - on Saturday (10.05.25) but she had been taken to hospital after her appendix ruptured, with her mom Terri Irwin, 60, also missing the event to be by her side.

Bindi's brother, Robert Irwin, told People magazine: "She's going to be OK, but surgery - out of all the things we were ready for, that was not one of them.

"She's just come out the other side of endometriosis and now the appendix goes. Health is so important - it really is.

"Bindi has become an incredible advocate for wome...